News From the Library
by Margaret Woodruff

Spooky Spiders Afterschool Program: October 15, 3:30 p.m.
Getting ready for Halloween? Come to the library to paint and decorate your own spider spectacular, perfect for a front porch or party display. Library Director Sherrie Simmons shares her crafting expertise and love of Halloween in this program for children third grade and up. Space is limited and registration required; please call the library to sign up (425-3864).

NEW BOOKS FOR ALL AGES! A new crop of books is just in, for readers and listeners, too.

New Audiobooks:
Antsy Does Time by Neal Shusterman (DCF title)
The Cabinet of Wonders by Marie Rutkoski (DCF
title)
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (sequel to The
Hunger Games)
Magician Trilogy by Jenny Nimmo:
The Snow Spider
Emlyn’s Moon
The Chestnut Soldier
Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams
Forever in Blue by Ann Brashares
Going Solo by Roald Dahl
The Keeper of the Grail by Michael Spradlin
(DCF title)
Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot:
Princess in the Spotlight
Princess in Waiting
Savvy by Ingrid Law (DCF title)

New Picture Books
Amelia Bedelia’s First Day of School by Herman
Parish
But Who Will Bell the Cats? by Cynthia von
Buhler
Explorer Extraordinaire (a Fancy Nancy book)
by Jane O’Connor
Tyrannosaurus Math by Michelle Markel
Where is the Cake? By Thé Tjong-Khing
New Juvenile Fiction
Children of the Lamp Series by P.B. Kerr:
Day of the Djinn Warriors (#4)
Eye of the Forest (#5)
Gilda Joyce: The Dead Drop by Jennifer Allison
The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
Piper Reed Series by Kimberly Willis Holt:
Piper Reed, Navy Brat
Piper Reed the Great Gypsy
Sisters Grimm Series by Michael Buckley:
Once Upon a Crime (#4)
Magic & Other Misdemeanors (#5)
Tales from the Hood (#6)
New Young Adult
The Big Game of Everything by Chris Lynch
Daniel X: Alien Hunter by James Patterson
Daniel X, Watch the Skies by James Patterson
Project Sweet Life by Brent Hartinger

Looking for a good book? Did you read An Abundance of Katherines by John Green?
If you loved this and his other books (Looking for Alaska and Papertowns), take a look at nerdfighters.ning.com. John and his brother Hank created this site to communicate with each other and the world about books, words, music and other cultural phenomena. Here’s a partial list of the books, some juvenile fiction, some young adult, some adult, that appeared as part of the Blurbing Book Club on the Nerdfighters website:
The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Everyman by Philip Roth
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery
O’Connor
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
Feed by M.T. Anderson
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill
Watterson
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor
to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by
M.T. Anderson
Just In Case by Meg Rosoff
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (in
complete works)
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
Rules by Cynthia Lord
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael
Chabon
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wo
ttyl by Lauren Myracle
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
Girl at Sea by Maureen Johnson